Doesn’t answer your question but something I’ve wondered about as well. I don’t maintain any open source software (yet?) but if I were to start a project I’d li

Doesn’t answer your question but something I’ve wondered about as well. I don’t maintain any open source software (yet?) but if I were to start a project I’d likely use a permissive license. I don’t want to start a philosophical flame war about licenses, but this idea makes sense to me. The details will likely take work to iron out, but why not have open source licenses with a clause for companies with over a certain amount of annual net profit. Does anyone have examples of this in practice? As far as I know, licensing models like Mongo or Elasticsearch are a bit more binary. I’d be fine letting individuals, small businesses, and startups use the software for free in perpetuity unless they hit some metric like “greater than $x in annual profit” or whatever. I guess a counterpoint to this might just be that companies that get to that scale would just develop the same thing in-house instead.